SUSE SLES12 Security Update : nodejs18 (SUSE-SU-2023:0715-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 172510

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:0715-1 advisory.

Update to NodeJS 18.14.2 LTS:

- CVE-2023-23918: Fixed permissions policies that could have been bypassed via process.mainModule (bsc#1208481).
- CVE-2023-23919: Fixed OpenSSL error handling issues in nodejs crypto library (bsc#1208483).
- CVE-2023-23920: Fixed insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment (bsc#1208487).
- CVE-2023-23936: Fixed protection against CRLF injection in host headers inside fetch API (bsc#1208485).
- CVE-2023-24807: Fixed possible Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via Headers.set() and Headers.append() methods (bsc#1208413).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected nodejs18, nodejs18-devel, nodejs18-docs and / or npm18 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 172510

File Name: suse_SU-2023-0715-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/14/2023

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, tenable_cloud_security, tenable_self_hosted_container_security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-23918

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs18, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs18-docs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:npm18, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs18-devel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/13/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/16/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-23918, CVE-2023-23919, CVE-2023-23920, CVE-2023-23936, CVE-2023-24807

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:0715-1

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